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The punishment / Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale.

by Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944-

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Yale University Press, 2020.

365.45092 B456p

Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944-

Authors, Moroccan -- Biography.

Political prisoners -- Morocco -- Biography.

Demonstrations -- Morocco.

Morocco -- History -- 1956-

Margellos world republic of letters book.

9780300243024 (hc.)

vii, 151 p. ; 21 cm.

"Originally published as La punition, copyright Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2018"--T.p. verso.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Prefac -- Off to El Hajeb -- Last Moments of Freedom -- Akka -- Medical Exam -- Punished by His Majesty -- Heavy Stones out in the Sun -- Maneuvers in the Rain -- Mohammed V Hospital -- An Evening chez Ababou -- The Convoy -- Ahermoumou -- On Sophisticated Brutality -- Daily Life -- Liberation Yes, Liberation No -- On the Outside -- June 5, 1971 -- The Surprise -- Translator's Notes -- Translator's Afterword

"In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of them survived. This powerful portrait of the author's traumatic experience, written with a memoirist's immediacy, reveals both his helpless terror and his desperate hope to survive by drawing strength from his love of literature. Shaken to the core by his disillusionment with a brutal regime, unsure of surviving his ordeal, he stole some paper and began to secretly write, with the admittedly romantic idea of leaving some testament behind, a veiled denunciation of the evils of his time. His first poem was published after he was unexpectedly released, and his vocation was born."--Jacket.

Coverdale, Linda.

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